Motivation. Inspiration. Aha Moments.

Hal Runkel has been captivating audiences around the world with his revolutionary relationship wisdom for almost 20 years. His engaging style and self-deprecating humor is so entertaining, audiences forget they’re actually learning timeless, practical principles for life, family, work, conflict, recovery, and so much more.

Bring Hal into your world, and your audience will come away enlightened about their relationships, encouraged about what they can do to effect change, and enthusiastic about getting started.

What You Can Expect from an event with Hal Runkel:

You come away enlightened about your relationships, encouraged about what you can do to effect change, and enthusiastic about getting started

You will never see your relationships in the same way, whether in your home, at the office, or in your community

The Power of Pause

All it takes to change a life is a single moment. That’s all it takes to ruin one as well. The difference is whether we can “take a moment” and respond, or whether we react, and let the moment overtake us.

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How can we harness this power of pause, gaining greater clarity and self-control in the heat of the moment?​ And how would that affect our relationships? our families? our work? our world?

This is the core of the ScreamFree philosophy, and this is the message Hal was born to teach.​

Calm Down, Grow Up, and Get Closer :Principles for a ScreamFree Marriage

Romantic relationships are the most meaningful to us all, and thus carry the most potential for the heights of passion and the depths of pain. But most romantic relationship advice is not only misguided, it’s downright harmful.

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So much of it teaches couples to sacrifice themselves to meet each other’s needs, and compromise their way to common ground, leaving people with more resentment than hope.

Prepare to have Hal open your eyes, and your heart, to the best relationship wisdom you’ve never heard, as he lays out the real truths of authentic connection: self-respect, Authentic Self-Representation, and the personal responsibility to respond more, and react less.

Prepare to have Hal open your eyes, and your heart, to the best relationship wisdom you’ve never heard, as he lays out the real truths of authentic connection: self-respect, Authentic Self-Representation, and the personal responsibility to respond more, and react less.

ScreamFree Parenting:Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool

Parenting is perhaps the most difficult leadership role on the planet. It is definitely the most important. With that kind of challenge, it is easy to become overwhelmed, and then try even harder to control our kids.

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Of course the more we try to control them, the more out-of-control they become, and the more out-of-control we become in the process.

Well, what if it was never our job to control our kids in the first place? What if, instead of freaking out about their behavior, we only had to focus on controlling our own? Family Therapist Hal Runkel can tell us what would happen: we would start to finally enjoy the family life we always wanted.

Hal’s laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating style is so disarming that parents find themselves free to admit their struggles and ask for help. His revolutionary wisdom creates so many aha moments that participants routinely ask, “This makes so much sense, why have we never heard this before?”

The ScreamFree Workplace: Getting Things Done by Getting Them Calm

When coworkers trust, respect, and even enjoy one another, their workplace not only becomes more peaceful, it becomes more productive. And yet, relationship experts spend far more time talking about family relationships in the home than relationships in the workplace. Until now.

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Eye-opening, practical, and presented in a LOL, interactive environment, this workshop will help you transform your office into a place of calm cohesion and peaceful productivity.

Whether you’re the newest member of the team just trying to fit in, or the senior leader charged with creating a cultural change, The ScreamFree Workplace will give you the tools and principles and inspiration you need to end division, manage conflict, and lead your office into a newfound harmony.

ScreamFree Teaching: Leading Your Classroom by Managing Yourself

Research continually shows that the number one factor improving student success is classroom management. Teachers have the power, through effective leadership, to help students rise above their social status, family stress, and even prior grades and test scores to achieve new heights of academic achievement.

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Unfortunately, however, teachers are more stressed than ever; they stand at the crossroads between their students, their students’ parents, their administrators, and their own families. They feel pulled in all directions, and responsible for outcomes they cannot control.

ScreamFree Teaching is the principle-based approach that uses this stress to help change the way teachers see their classrooms — and their own lives. Hal offers educators something more than simple discipline techniques—he provides a fresh perspective and clinical insight into the underlying dynamics in education, and equips teachers and administrators to radically influence their classrooms by simply managing themselves. Learning to calm him or herself down, the ScreamFree Teacher leads others to grow themselves up (even the adults!).

While almost all of us are afraid of it, the most successful people in the world have learned to love healthy conflict. Whether between spouses, colleagues, countries, or ideas, constructive conflict is the only path to true connection, growth, and peace. How can we learn to calm our discomfort, and handle our emotions, in order to face our fears, and find this peace?

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Authentic Self-Representation. This miraculous method was developed by Hal & his wife Jenny for their book, ScreamFree Marriage. Hal now teaches this around the world as a program for mediating conflicts in any relationship.

Choose Your Own Adulthood:The Small Choices that Make a Big Difference

Respond More, React Less…Create More, Critique Less…Finish More, Start Less. These are some of the small but significant choices of successful adults, and these are the choices teenagers and college students need to master.

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What started as a letter to his graduating daughter turned into Hal’s newest program for all high school and college students.

Using humor, story-telling, and real-life scenarios, Hal leads teens out of the adolescent world of black-and-white reactivity, and into the adult world of sophisticated, effective decision-making.

Playing with Fire: Teenage Sexuality in the Digital Age

Never before in human history have teens been this connected to other teens, nor had access to this much information (and misinformation) about sex. That combination is leading to enormous, problems involving sexting, cyberbullying, and child pornography.

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Hal takes the latest research about brain chemistry, the latest rulings on public policy, and his own findings among teenagers to develop a clear path forward for parents, teachers, lawmakers, and teens themselves.

Combining timeless principles with practical digital guidelines, Hal is showing audiences that the digital world is not as scary as parents fear, nor as innocent as teens assume.​

The 7 Deadly Sins of the 21st Century

Immediacy. Consumerism. Emotional Reactivity. Sitting. These are but a few of the modern maladies of the human spirit. In the name of more speed, more stuff, and more comfort, we moderns are killing ourselves to be happy.

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In this revolutionary look at contemporary life, Hal takes us all to “confession,” helping us repent of our craziness and return to our deepest desires for peace, connection, and sustainability.

The ScreamFree principles have played an important role in my parenting style. Recently, I brought in Hal in to talk with my employees about creating a ScreamFree workplace. His smart, engaging style blew them away. They were challenged to redefine the way they think about their relationships in the office and at home. I would encourage every manager to bring Hal and ScreamFree in to work with their team, and in turn, dramatically increase morale and productivity.

Melissa Taylor
Partner and Managing Director, Porter Novelli Atlanta

Are you ready to bring peace to your organization, community, company, or family?